JS Deepak, former secretary at the Department of Telecommunications, has joined Bharti Airtel as Group Director for Policy and International Strategy.

Deepak was the DoT secretary from February 2016 to March 2017, after which he was shifted to the commerce ministry and assumed the position of Ambassador of India to the WTO in July 2017. Airtel didn't offer an immediate comment.

Deepak superannuated in 2018 but his tenure at the WTO came to a close in May, 2020. Since March 2021, he was serving as a senior advisor to STL and as a Distinguished Fellow in the Oxford Research Foundation, both in part time capacities, as per his LinkedIn profile.